AASLH Emerging History Professionals Group Welcomes New Committee Members
The AASLH Emerging History Professionals Affinity Community is please to announce five new committee members joining the EHP Committee for the 2017-2019 [...]
Creative Audience Engagement Techniques from Award Winners
If your organization is looking for creative ways to engage your audience, here are four Leadership in History Awards winning projects with some [...]
What You Can Do on Summer Vacation
Did you ever have to write the typical “What I Did on Summer Vacation” essay on the first day of school? It [...]
How to Choose an Object Name for Cataloging an Abstract of Title
Lynne Sylvester of the Winter Garden Heritage Foundation in Florida has posed this question: I have to catalog an Abstract of Title [...]
Cemeteries: The Eternal Classroom
When I read Michele M. Celani’s blog post about the effectiveness of historical markers in the classroom I thought “oh [...]
Getting Schooled in History Relevance by Hamilton
By Bethany Hawkins, AASLH I am really late to the party. I just listened to the Hamilton: An American [...]
The Legacy of Dime Museums and the Freakshow : How the Past Impacts the Present
This article was originally published in the Autumn 2013 issue of History News magazine. You can read the article in PDF format [...]
Play the Past
The Minnesota Historical Society has created a new learning paradigm for student engagement through its Play with the Past program. This new model for field [...]
Cowboys, Real and Imagined
The New Mexico History Museum sought to draw visitors from across the state into an iconic regional narrative with their new exhibit. Using the museum's [...]
Rough Point Valance VIP Project
Rough Point is the English baronial-style summer residence of Doris Duke located in Newport, Rhode Island. In 1993 upon her death the estate was bequeathed [...]
Sisters of Loretto Heritage Center
The site of the Loretto Heritage Center and Archives is home to the Sisters of Loretto, a community of Catholic Sisters. Established in 1812 by [...]
San Marino: A Centennial History
San Marino, a small Southern California city with a richly layered past, celebrated its centennial year in 2013. The book San Marino: A Centennial History [...]
From Brown to Meredith: The Long Struggle for School Desegregation in Louisville, KY, 1954-2007
From Brown to Meredith: The Long Struggle for School Desegregation in Louisville, Kentucky, 1954-2007 tells the local history of people struggling to achieve diversity and [...]